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informative
tense
medium-paced
I love my nonfiction narratively and this was a very interesting perspective on a world I knew fairly little about. Loved that you follow both the Silk Road founder and the government agencies looking for him (especially unbelievable how embarrassingly amateurish they went about it, all fiddling by themselves for way too long).
You go into this knowing Ulbricht must’ve been found out eventually, but everything seemed so untraceable that I still gasped out loud once the first agent was on his tail. But this story really reaches the boundaries of fiction in the scenes with the agents that forgot which side they’re on.
You go into this knowing Ulbricht must’ve been found out eventually, but everything seemed so untraceable that I still gasped out loud once the first agent was on his tail. But this story really reaches the boundaries of fiction in the scenes with the agents that forgot which side they’re on.
(ps the moment where one of the agents goes around the 9/11 site thanking security guards for their service was very Sorkin’s the Newsroom plane/pilots scene -coded.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use
Minor: Death of parent